Visiting Scholar

David Hartzband , Sc.D., has worked for two-plus decades on exploring and integrating emerging technologies into new and existing product streams. He has developed advanced database and metadata technologies, including knowledge base, similarity-based reasoning systems and model and ontology-based systems. He has also developed products in the distributed middleware, content management and collaboration areas, as well as developing architectures for very large-scale data and information management systems. He has done considerable consulting on use of emerging technologies in conventional products and product strategies and has also consulted on both business and technology strategy for early stage and established companies.

Dr. Hartzband has worked at such companies as EMC, Documentum, eRoom Technology, Agile Software, General Motors, Boeing (Commercial Airplane Company) and the Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence and Database Architect for the corporation. He has previously held faculty positions at Stanford University (Computer Science Division), The College of William and Mary (Mathematics and Marine Science) and was last a Visiting Scholar at MIT in the Leaders for Manufacturing Program in 1991-92.

Dr. Hartzband’s research has been focused on the co-evolution of organizations and technology in engineering companies and the technology that those organizations develop, adopt and use. More recently, he has been working on issues in healthcare information technology (HIT), and has developed architectures for large scale information sharing among healthcare organizations. He is currently writing a column on HIT for Health Center Forum, the magazine of the National Association for Community Health Centers and is also writing a monthly column on HIT for the website of the RCHN Community Health Foundation. Most recently he has been investigating the relationship of GDP-based productivity in ambulatory healthcare to technology adoption and clinical outcomes in those organizations.

News and announcements:

ESD Visiting Scholar David Hartzband Speaks on Capital Hill about Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics (April 21, 2008)